On-the-dot.Art wants to help that understanding by sharing our expertise and impressions of everything art related. the people behind on-the-dot.art: Amélie, Guillemette, Patricia
About Amélie
“Because it’s ART, darling!”
Born in 1973 in London as a German diplomat’s brat, I lived in various countries and exploited them from as many angles as possible. I loved it, discovering different people,
mentalities, languages, foods and the different representations of their culture. When I was 6, we moved to Poland where my parents really hit off their love affair with East-European art, especially Polish and Czech. I remember meeting quite a number of artists and their work, some of them making a deep impression on me*. But it was only a few years later, when we had moved to America, that I fell in love with “my first artist”: Keith Haring. Keith Haring´s Free South Africa also became the first piece of my collection, at the time it cost 1 $…
To this day, I have a passion for Pop Art and street art, and for New York. In Houston, where we lived in the second half of the 1980s, I was incredibly fortunate to have some of the most amazing museums and exhibitions at arm’s length: the Menil Collection, the Rothko Chapel, the Contemporary Arts Museum, and many more amazing galleries. My friends and I would dress up fancy and crazy and go to the vernissages to discover the works of Julian Schnabel and Bob Wilson, the felt suit of Joseph Beuys, the sculptures of Jesús Bautista Moroles and many others. It took the encounter with Nancy and Robert Mollers, two extraordinary collectors from Chicago who then lived in Houston, to open my eyes and heart to contemporary art forever. Whenever I could and can, I travel to visit museums and galleries, art fairs and street art, talk to gallerists and artists, hear and see and share their thoughts and their different ways to express them. In 30 years my love has continuously grown, I’ve received input and inspiration, learned, understood, re-evaluated and changed through art. To share that passion and maybe help with some insights, like Robert and Nancy have done for me, is the reason for on-the-dot.Art.
*notably Jonasz Stern, Karel Malich, Henryk Stajewski, Tadeusz Kantor, Toyen, Magdalena Jetelowa, Marina Abramovic, Magdalena Abakanowicz, to name just a few. About Guillemette
I am in love with art. Art passionate, with a nomad life, I was born in France in 1972. I discovered art very early thanks to my parents, during my childhood in Italy. Since my youngest age, I consider the museums as my homes, big catalogues of images to nourish my curiosity, imagination and creativity. I had several big emotional art shocks. Among them 3 significants, « I Bronzi di Riace », two big antique Greek sculptures from the 5th century BC, impressive bodies with golden eyes, that I saw in a fabric, after their restoration, before their installation at the Museo Nazionale della Grande-Grecia, Reggio di Calabria. I was 6 and such a beauty impressed me. Then it was the Vincent Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, I was 14 and I remember that I imagined to install my house in each rooms of the museum, surrounded with such magnificent paintings of brighting colors. And the painting of Pierre Soulages in a collective exhibition, at Musée d’Art Moderne de Villeneuve d’Ascq, I was 25, I just stayed there, fascinated, attracted by the « Outrenoir » as a revelation. Tirelessly I have been touched by artists art works. So I begin my trips to museums when I was 16, I went to the most famous museums and galeries around the world for a marathon of exhibitions in a very short time. I saw the exhibitions of James Turell, Richard Avedon, Ana Mendieta, Bill Viola, Amar Kanwar, Mario Giacomelli, Raoul Hausmann, Anish Kapoor, Ismaïl Bahri, André Kertész, etc. I am amazed to discover exhibitions, collections, artists studios, galeries, my curiosity is like a big gap, never fulfilled. Still looking for a new art work to moved me. I naturally decided to study languages and art-history, and I worked for 20 years in the Parisians Museums and Art Centers, among other at Jeu de Paume, Paris, coordinating exhibitions. I am a specialist of photography and video art history. I share my passion of art with professionals, friends and family. I feel free in this environment, surrounded by originality, imagination and creative people assuming who they really are. I also always have been interested in human psychology, so I became an art-therapist, with a 3 years experience. I continue to work for museums where I create workshops based on art and emotions. In order to pass on my knowledge and give the taste of art to children, adults and seniors. I am still living for art to nourish my soul. About Patricia
I believe that art, in any form, has a tremendous impact on our emotions and mood. During the past 30 years I have been to countless exhibitions in Museums, Galleries and Exhibition spaces in Paris, Europe and around the world. Today, it is my ambition to document and share my excursions by contributing to “on-the-dot.Art”! I am originally from Germany, and due to my father’s job, before I was 16, I had lived in Asia, North America, and Europe. The moving around stopped when I got settled in France, where I have lived for most of my adult life. Since 2014, I have been working in the Paris office of a Foundation that is dedicated to encouraging exploration, understanding, and enjoyment of the visual arts of the United States for national and international audiences. My first encounters with Art date back to the early 90’s, when I first heard about Warhol, Picasso and Matisse, and I started going to Museums. When I got to Paris in the mid 90’s, I spent most of my free time looking at art in Museums: Musée Picasso of course, the Louvre, Centre Pompidou, Musée Rodin… It was not until 2010 that I started becoming acquainted with more recent and contemporary Art by going to Art Galleries as well. I have gone to great lengths and travelled to countless places to see art. The farthest I have travelled is to Marfa, TX, to see the Judd Foundation, and to Pie Town, NM, to experience the Lightning Field by Walter de Maria. I always have an up-to-date bucket list of places to go to see art handy, and I greatly look forward to sharing it with you !
